Its a chocolate-vanilla swirl of alternating realities. The only place I really know where people walk around with hand guns are in places like Texas, and some inner city neighborhoods. You sometimes have gang infested areas adjacent to high value real estate. The lifestyles differences from one area to another are worlds apart. it isn't one particular concept of living.

So what you are saying is that is isn't guns themselves that lead to an increase in the number of deaths by shooting - but Americans with guns that lead to an increase in the number of deaths by shooting.

As you have argued so well against removing all the guns we are left with only one choice.

So what you are saying is that is isn't guns themselves that lead to an increase in the number of deaths by shooting - but Americans with guns that lead to an increase in the number of deaths by shooting.

As you have argued so well against removing all the guns we are left with only one choice.

Trust me on this - in a society with no guns it is really difficult to have a mass shooting.

There are no societies with no guns. And even with situations where there is an absence of an available gun, mass killings still occur.

Mass shootings that occur where their victims had no guns have had massive casualty rates. In fact, they target locations where they know there are no guns. Similar shootings where there have been guns, the shooting is curtailed, and the killings minimized. A number of examples have demonstrated that.

I'll claim some of that 285 as instances where the victims had no guns.

You are someone who has a few "issues" and you want to express your "issues" by gunning down a few people and then suicide or "death by cop". Do you choose to walk into a shooting range or a pre-school? These people are mad, they're not stupid.

Losing 1 person per million in 2015 in mass shooting is obviously a statistic which the masses consider worth living with.

That forms part of the 3.55 killed per 100,000 by homicide (gun).
But don't worry I have a statistic that will please you - 1.5 people per 100,000 are killed as pedestrians. (approx 4,800 per year)

if Congress wanted to pass legislation calling for the immediate confiscation of all firearms, the only thing standing in its way would be existing Supreme Court decisions around the 2nd Amendment, since those decisions provide for an individual right to bear arms.

Oh that sounds easy. But I don't think the Supreme Court can singlehandedly remove a Bill of Rights amendment. That could cover steps 1 to 3 in this video. But look at step #5: